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Home Health Services primarily focuses on meeting the home care
needs of senior citizens throughout the community. Our focus on
serving Medicare-eligible patients has allowed us to streamline
our services and processes for maximum efficiency.
This
efficiency allows Home Health Services to reinvest resulting agency
profits into providing charity home care for people without insurance
or who are ineligible for government programs. This business model
allows our nonprofit agency to be self-sustaining and rely on no
outside funding for charity.
For Home Health Services to provide services to a patient under
the Medicare benefit, the following criteria must exist:
- the
patient is an eligible Medicare beneficiary
- a
physician orders home care and the home care services are provided
under a physician's supervision
- the
patient is deemed homebound, meaning confined to his or her home
and able to leave only infrequently with the help of another person
or assistive device
-
the
patient requires skilled nursing or therapy services on an intermittent
basis
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Since 1996, Home Health Services has provided skilled health care
services to patients living with AIDS under the Ryan White C.A.R.E.
Act. Home Health Services provides these visits on a sliding-scale
basis as part of its ongoing charity to meet the community's health
care needs.
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Home Health Services values its relationships with the physicians,
case managers and discharge planners who refer their home care
patients to our agency. We invest in those relationships by providing
a full team of onsite case managers who help with the discharge
planning process. All Home Health Services onsite case managers
are professionals with medical backgrounds, including registered
nurses and medical social workers, and are fully familiar with
the details of discharging a patient to home care. They are dedicated
to making the discharge process from the hospital to home as easy
as possible for the patient, family and referring medical professional.
Under a doctor's order for home care, a Home Health Services onsite
case manager will assess the patient in the facility for home
care eligibility and arrange for any necessary medical equipment
and community assistance.
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Home care is not suitable for every patient's needs. Home Health
Services aims to ensure that each of our patients will benefit
from our services. The following are examples of patients who
require services beyond home care:
- patients
who are actively suicidal or combative
- patients
with needs in excess of intermittent home care services -- Medicare
patients may be able to supplement Home Health Services' care
with a private-pay home care service
- patients
who only require custodial home care and do not need medical
skilled services
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patients
who are not homebound
- patients
with unsafe home environments for providing care in the home
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